Category: Soil Mechanics

Important links:

• Soil Mechanics (the complete course)
• Effective Stress (slide presentation)
• Textbook References: Verruijt Chapters 5 and 6 (print,) 4 and 5 (online); SFH 2.2, 2.3, 5.3; Tsytovich 3.2 (part)
• Effective Stress Example Problem Spreadsheet
• Who’s This Idiot? That’s Me!  It’s easy to get trapped in the system.

Important links:

• Soil Mechanics (the complete course)
• Soil Composition (slide presentation)
• Textbook References: Verruijt Chapter 3 (print and online); SFH 2.1, 5.3; Tsytovich 1.4
• Those Pesky Kilogram-Force Units — vulcanhammer.info (a way to sort out things with the MKS units)
• Weight and Volume Relationships for Soils, from NAVFAC DM 7
• In Search of the Lost Movado.  Bar hopping has consequences.

Important links:

• Soil Mechanics (the complete course)
• Site Exploration and Classification (slide presentation)
• Textbook references: Verruijt Chapter 3 (print), 47 (online); SFH Chapter 3, 4.7
• Foundation Design and Analysis: Boring Logs and Their Interpretation
• An Introduction to Drilling and Sampling in Geotechnical Practice — the “Boring Video”. It’s included with the video above, this links to it by itself.
• And while we’re on the subject of boring…My Thoughts on Sleeping in Class